Huck Finn Quotes

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"The Widow Douglass she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me"

a) Huck
b) At the introduction when Huck is talking about the events of The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer.
c) Huck means that the Widow would take care of him and try and make him respectable.
d) The quote references to the beginning of Hucks development as well as the story. At
first, Huck is apprehensive to embrace proper societial manners. However, as it is
previously mentioned in the book, he was persuaded by Tom Sawyer to become
respectable. He accepts society in the hope of entertainment and fun in the future.

Why cant Miss Watson fat up?

a) Huck
b) When Huck is pondering praying and religion in the woods by himself.
c) Huck means if people pray for something, why dont they get it?
d) The quote relates to Twains satire of humanity. Huck is questioning the concept of
religion. He expects in daily prayer, to receive everything he asks for. But when this
doesnt occur, he wonders how it doesnt work. Twain is using irony to criticize
religion in how people expect to be given what they ask for by praying to God,
without necessarily doing anything.

Heres the law a-standing ready to take a mans son away from him a mans own son, which
he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising.

a) Hucks father
b) During a drunken rage, in Hucks fathers cabin.
c) He means that the government is attempting to take away Huck from his father.
d) The quote relates to Twains satire of humanity. Twain is again using irony in that
Hucks father is raging about how the government is trying to take Huck away when
he has raised him, when he left Huck years ago. The father, further increasing the
irony, chases Huck around the cabin later, to emphasize Twains point.

People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum but that dont
make no difference. I aint a-going to tell, and I aint a-going back there, anyways.

a) Huck
b) Sitting with Jim on Jacksons Island.
c) Huck means that he doesnt care what people think of him for keeping a black mans
secret, and that it doesnt matter anyway.
d) The quote relates to both themes. It shows Hucks refusal to judge a friend by the
color of his skin. Huck is also alone, except for Jim, on the island. He is more
accepting of Jim regardless, because of it. Twain is also, through his use of the word
Abolitionist, firmly establishes the idea of slavery as a negative aspect of Southern
culture by talking about how people would react to Huck keeping mum for a black
man, when we already have learned that Huck doesnt prejudice who he keeps secrets
with.

I made up my mind I wouldnt ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I
see what had come of it.

a) Huck
b) After Huck leaves a snakeskin in front of Jims tent, and the snakes mate bites Jim.
c) Huck means he regrets his decision to pick up the snakeskin, because Jim told him it
resulted in bad luck.
d) The quote relates to Hucks development. Huck is still immature, and attempts to
scare Jim with a snakeskin. This results in a snake biting Jim. Through Hucks
foolishness and desire for amusement, it results in Jim falling ill for several days.
Huck resolves to not take a snakeskin again, so that more bad luck does not result.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldnt. Hed call it
an adventure thats what hed call it...I wish Tom Sawyer was here.

a) Huck
b) After Huck and Jim find a shipwreck while on a raft traveling up the Mississippi
River.
c) Huck means he wants to have an adventure.
d) This quote relates to Hucks development. He still continues to lust for adventure,
displayed by his mention of Tom Sawyer and how Tom would call it an adventure.
Huck is still focused on enjoying himself and not accepting reality. Jim, who
understands that he is in trouble, doesnt want to go to check out the wreck, but
Hucks eagerness for excitement causes him to be dissuaded.

It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back.

a) Huck
b) After Huck and Jim are talking about Huck leaving and lying to Jim about being
gone.
c) Huck means hes sorry for worrying and lying to Jim.
d) The quote relates to both themes. Huck is still immature and not thinking of others.
Jim was genuinely worried about Huck leaving. Then when Huck comes back, he
tries to lie and say he wasnt gone. Twain is also points out in Jims speech that Huck
thinks he can get away with lying to Jim, and by making Huck regretful of his
actions, showing not only the growth of his character but also continuing the negative
reflection on racism.

Your mistake is, you didnt bring a man with you; thats one mistake, and the other is that you
didnt come in the dark and fetch your masks.

a) Sherburn
b) Sherburn is talking to a mob that wants to lynch Sherburn for swindling a man.
c) Sherburn means that no one is brave enough to try and lynch him and that he knows
who they are.
d) The quote relates to Twains satire of humanity. Twain uses Sherburn to show that one
dissident and well-spoken voice can shatter a mob. Twain also uses irony in that the
mob goes to lynch Sherburn together, because they are so afraid of going alone, a fact
that Sherburn states when he says, you didnt bring a man with you.

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